* Making the chef manipulate the food more:
- (from baystation12) Adding dough (egg+flour), flat dough (rollingpin), doughslice (knife on flat dough gives 3) , raw meat cutlet (knife on meat), cooked meat cutlet (microwaved raw cutlet; replacing meat in recipes), bread (microwaved dough), bun (microwaved doughslice) and Burger Bun (use two buns on each other. This gives more use to the rolling pin and knife.
- Making plates and bowls actually used in recipes and add them to the kitchen vending machine.
* Recipe are no longer made via microwave magic and will now fall into three categories:
- Microwave recipes: some basic ingredients (especially raw) are cooked in microwave in batches (tray can be used to load multiple things at once in the microwave) (dough, doughslice, raw cutlet, etc..)
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The advantages of this system:
- Cooking no longer requires you to have the wiki open all the time, if you don't know the recipes you can unload all the items you have on a table and see what you can make, or start making your own custom food (the kitchen cook book will contain the few microwave recipes and the base items needed for each type of customizable foods, e.g. burger bun for burger, bowl for salad)
- Customizable foods make the cook job more creative, it adds variety without cluttering the kitchen with snowflake machines.
- It gives a use to the rolling pin, empty plates and bowls, and more use to the tray and knife.
- It makes cooking a bit more realistic.
- This gives more visibility to tablecrafting.
The disadvantages:
- Having lots of items on one table makes clicking and dragging more difficult and will increases the amount of misclicks (adding reagents to food instead of placing the condiment bottle on the table because you misclicked)
- microwave is a bit underused.
- We lose the ability to make custom-named human burgers.
- Some realism inconsistency (pizzas, pies and cakes are never cooked, crackers use uncooked doughslice)
What do you think?
